Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

This publication features Indian carpets created between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Often overlooked for being too similar to Persian carpets or too reliant on the aesthetic of manuscript illustration, Indian carpets are distinct and meaningful contributions to Indian art and the global carpet-weaving tradition, as the author of this volume argues. More than fifty carpets made of a variety of materials—including cotton, wool, silk, and pashmina—feature in this publication, while illustrations of Indian and European paintings show the role that these carpets played in material culture across continents.